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Disability Retirement under FERS & CSRS: Where we are

Posted onJune 5, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Wherever we are, we believe that is where the focal point of life resides. Yes, it is a truism that the wider the travels, the greater recognition that one’s life is relatively insignificant, and that there are others in distant places where greater importance and relevance is objectively established. But the subjective, human perspective cannot ultimately abandon the compass of where we are; for, it is the center of the compass itself that controls the direction of the gravitational pull, […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: From Whence We Came

Posted onAugust 17, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is often quipped that the advantage of human psychology is in our short memories; otherwise, we would walk around with greater angst than we deserve. The accomplishments achieved; the accolades left unstated; perhaps in menial tasks or ones of recognized significance; but in any event, a career, all told, which spans a decade or more, will always have a sense of achievement, […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Avoidance

Posted onJuly 24, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There are always activities and interests to pursue; that is the “stuff” of which life is comprised. Heidegger referred to the multiple and endless projects as a means of distracting ourselves from the ultimate fate of our existence; but in truth, it is far less complex than that. Keeping busy is a means of filling in the void of daily toil, and where activity tires the soul, thoughtfulness is replaced with silence. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Law: Fool’s Gold

Posted onJuly 16, 2015March 2, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Pyrite is often the element mistaken for gold, with its bright yellow appearance and shiny, reflective compound. Why a given mineral is determined of greater value than another of similar appearance is a complicated affair, encapsulating economic principles of supply and demand, the fungibility and replacement feature of one over the other, and the plain fact that the elemental differentiation itself constitutes “real” versus “fake”. It is, in history books, novels and plays, a metaphor for greed, corruption, ill-fated endeavors, and motives which propel obsessions of determined failure and futility. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: The Deeper Recesses of Unwanted Caricatures

Posted onJuly 13, 2015March 16, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Caricatures often depict an exaggerated degree of undesirable characteristics, whether for comic effect or sleaze of meanness. The totality of the person or entity described is rarely the reality of the grotesque aggregate of the negative characteristics, but one can still see the relative truth of validation in the aspects shown. Such caricatures, too, can be either internal or external; the latter being the depiction from the perspective of someone “other”; the former comprised of the totality of one’s self-image, […] Read More …